Despite many hours of testing there are always improvements to be made with any distro and its applications - VL5.8 Standard included. This thread is designed to put all the little fixes in one place. I will be continually updating this HOWTO as fixes appear in the forums. Please add to this thread if you know of a problem and a SOLUTION in VL5.8 Gold or its included applications.

Here are the ones I know of to date:

1) RipperX: has the wrong CDDB server name set. Go to RipperX, Config, CDDB, and change URL to "freedb.freedb.org" , port to "8880" and uncheck the "Use HTTP" flag.

3) Seamonkey: is not compatible with many Firefox extensions, e.g. AdBlock and FlashGot work, ForecastFox does not. Visit this site: http://users.skynet.be/fa258499/extensions.html , which lists extensions that work with SeaMonkey (thanks to JohnB316 for that link!).

4) Services: by default the only daemon services started by VL5.8 Gold are cupsd, firewall and ifplugd. If you need crond, samba (smbd & nmbd) or others then you must explicitly have them start at each bootup. Do this by going to Menu, System, vasm, Super, Service, SrvSet, 4, and check the services you would like to start. I recommend ensuring crond is started so that you get your logs rotated.

5) Opera: does not play well with its mplayer plugin for playing windows media audio files. The workaround is to try to launch the stream into gmplayer directly, rather than using the mplayer plugin, or use Firefox or Seamonkey instead.

6) Graveman: to burn a CDRW (not CDR) platter you must choose a low enough burn speed (~ 8x), because Graveman does not auto-detect possible speeds correctly. If you don't do this Graveman may crash unexpectedly.

7) vim (and gvim): in order for the arrow keys to work properly add the following line in your ~/.vimrc file: ":set nocompatible" . Also, gvim does not have a menu entry, so paste the lines below into a new file /usr/share/applications/gvim.desktop :

3) Seamonkey: is not compatible with many Firefox extensions, e.g. AdBlock and FlashGot work, ForecastFox does not. Visit this site: http://users.skynet.be/fa258499/extensions.html , which lists extensions that work with SeaMonkey (thanks to JohnB316 for that link!).

4) Services: by default the only daemon services started by VL5.8 Gold are cupsd, firewall and ifplugd. If you need crond, samba (smbd & nmbd) or others then you must explicitly have them start at each bootup. Do this by going to Menu, System, vasm, Super, Service, SrvSet, 4, and check the services you would like to start. I recommend ensuring crond is started so that you get your logs rotated.

IMO, that's a feature, not an annoyance. Probably cupsd shouldn't be on by default, either. Even in a desktop system, you should activate only what you will need.

Despite many hours of testing there are always improvements to be made with any distro and its applications - VL5.8 Standard included. This thread is designed to put all the little fixes in one place. I will be continually updating this HOWTO as fixes appear in the forums. Please add to this thread if you know of a problem and a SOLUTION in VL5.8 Gold or its included applications.

Here are the ones I know of to date:

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7) vim (and gvim): in order for the arrow keys to work properly add the following line in your ~/.vimrc file: ":set nocompatible" .<snip for brevity>

Note that .vimrc is not created by default in a users home directory; the correct system wide fix for vim is as in this example, then you don't need to add :set nocompatible in your .vimrc for this:

johnpipe:$ su -c 'cp /etc/vimrc /usr/share/vim/'

Here is the explanation:

"At startup, vim reads /etc/vimrc and ~/.vimrc (i.e., the global vimrc and the user-specific one.). Note that this is only true if you compiled vim using LFS-3.1 onwards. Prior to this, the global vimrc was /usr/share/vim/vimrc ."

Xine: sync bugs in DVD playback There is a problem with synchronization of audio and video in DVD playback with Xine. This is attributable to xine-lib-1.1.2 being the default Xine engine in VL 5.8 Std. One remedy is to upgrade to xine-lib-1.1.4, now available in VL5.8 testing repo. However, if you choose to upgrade, you may lose playback of Real audio and video files, which work okay with default xine-lib-1.1.2, according to xinehq faq.

Download xine-lib-1.1.4-i686-2vl58.tlz to your computer from VL5.8 testing repo, cd to the directory where xine-lib-1.1.4 is located, as root run this command:

NOTE: If, after upgrading to xine-lib-1.1.4, xine will not open, you can try upgrading libgcrypt to libgcrypt-1.2.3, as this seems to fix xine. Download libgcrypt-1.2.3-i586-1vl58.tlz from VL5.8 patches repo, cd to directory where downloaded file is located, as root run this command: